Well... sometimes things are so broken that they cannot be fixed. Such was the case with the old message board version. I was left with no choice but to install new board software, and that as you can see, means big changes. I know that people are reticent about change, so I know that there will be some knee jerk reactions of revolt initially. Settle in, give me some time to try and get some of the gazillion customizations and modifications hat I had made o the old board over the years, and hopefully things will start to feel more familiar.

They aren't changing anyhoo, the new board is here to stay. Security takes precedent over all.

Please be sure to report any problems that you have or notice in this thread, or to me directly by PM.

Mods... lots of new stuff to look at and play with - I ain't even gonna get into it until we make sure everything is working fine, so feel free to fumble around and find the things that you're used to using, and some of the new ones too. Shiny new digs!!!

I only lost SIX posts out of 600,000+ in the transfer - not a single member - pretty incredible really. Kudos to the phpbb team that made the convertor. Hitting a button every 45-60 seconds for 4 hours wasn't pleasant, but if the end result was nearly 100% data integrity on the transfer, I'd do it again in a heart beat.

In the end, we had to move the entire site to a new server, so thanks to the guys at doreo.com for always taking such good care of me. If you ever have hosting needs for a website, never look any further...

I'm going to bed. I have been working on this for 29 straight hours. I'll check in to see what's broke later.

Enjoy the new house, we'll get some re-decorating sone soon - but she's got four solid new walls and a roof and that's what's important for the community.

Hey man. You do what you gotta do. You won't hear complaints from me. We will get used to it, and in a few weeks, nobody will remember how it was. I like the "Save Draft" feature on here. I don't remember seeing that before, but may have missed it. Anyhow...Props!!!

Thanks again, Boss. Again and again. Hope and assume your health is better. In '05, it took me about a week to get through the "I'm too young to have had a heart attack stage". Next was a depressing "I can no longerf do x, y, or z". That wears off. At somewhere about a year of 18 months after the heart attack, I had quit worrying, forgotten to be depressed (depression is typical for a time), and gone back to being a grumpy curmudgeon.

The new board looks fine. A shock, since I'd been around here a long time, but every person and all the threads and features and articles are here. Sort of like you redecorated for us.